Bill Whittle Quotes
You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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You can stroke people with words.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.
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It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
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You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.
